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As the controversy over Shirley Sherrod’s ouster grew last month, Tom Vilsack told President Barack Obama he was willing to resign his post as secretary of the Department of Agriculture. In an interview with Politico, Vilsack again expressed regret for his rash decision to fire Sherrod over a selectively edited video that distorted comments she [...]

Shirley Sherrod, who was ousted from her federal job after the release of an edited video in which she appeared to make a racist remark, won’t be going back to work at the Agriculture Department, despite an offer by the agency at a meeting Tuesday. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who fired Sherrod in July, then [...]

A month after losing her federal job over a selectively edited video that showed her making racial remarks that were misinterpreted, Shirley Sherrod says she’ll continue to work with the NAACP even though the group initially condemned her. In a letter posted Tuesday on the website of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored [...]

Politics Daily National Correspondent Mary C. Curtis appeared on NPR’s “Here & Now” on Friday to discuss Shirley Sherrod’s latest comments on her controversial firing and her plans to sue Andrew Breitbart. Click here to listen to the segment, and click here to read Mary C. Curtis’s accompanying piece. View the original article here This [...]

The last time there was this much hot political commentary by people who hadn’t actually seen the source material was probably the week that most of us first heard of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. That talk-storm had a lot in common with the media and political pratfall over Shirley Sherrod, the suddenly former mid-level Georgia [...]

Salon’s Joan Walsh wrote about me today, so I figure I would return the courtesy. Walsh and I (along with Jane Hall of American University) appeared on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” with Howard Kurtz Sunday morning, to discuss the Shirley Sherrod story, as well as the “JournoList” story. Things got rocky early on. During Walsh’s opening [...]